Guy Scott

Guy Lindsay Scott (1 June 1944-) was the President of Zambia from 2014, succeeding Michael Sata, serving under Sata as Vice-President from 2011 to 2014. Scott, of Anglo-Scottish descent, was the first white head-of-state in the African Continent since Frederick Willem de Klerk of South Africa twenty years earlier, and the first white ruler of a democratic sub-Saharan African country in history.

Biography
Guy Lindsay Scott was born in Livingstone, North Rhodesia, in the United Kingdom (present-day Zambia) on 1 June 1944 to a white African family of Anglo-Scottish descent. He studied at Cambridge and Sussex universities in the motherland of England and joined the Zambian government in 1965 after graduating from Trinity Hall in Cambridge. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Scott served as Minister of Agriculture from 1991 to 1996, and became the right-hand man of the another president, Michael Sata. He was chosen as Vice-President and became the interim president upon Sata's death in a London hospital at the age of 77 in 2014, the first democratically-elected white president in Africa in history and the first White African head of state since Frederick Willem de Klerk of South Africa twenty years earlier. Scott was not judged for his skin color and Zambia moved to cosmopolitan condition from a post-colonial country. However, due to a previous law set forth in the country, he would have to hold elections within 90 days to determine the full president, and he was not supposed to be able to be elected president due to a law requiring third-generation Zambian descent.